Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-03003" ]

Title: Indo-Swiss Collaboration in Biotechnology (ISCB)

Description: [type="1" ] In the context of increasing global challenges, rapid demographic changes, degradation of natural resources and impact of climate change, the Indo-Swiss Collaboration in Biotechnology develops innovative products with the aim to improve food security, sustainable and climate resilient agriculture. Swiss and Indian research institutions join forces in a partnership to develop products that are oriented towards market integration. Based on a long-standing partnership the new phase will particularly endeavour to focus research on farmers needs and to better integrate innovations in a value-chain approach.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-02263" ]

Title: Aguasan Programme Nicaragua

Description: [type="1" ] The population in rural areas and small towns of poor regions in Nicaragua still widely lacks sustainable water and sanitation services. The programme aims at improving living conditions of the population by providing water and sanitation infrastructure. State institutions at national and municipal levels will be strengthened. Community participation in the design, implementation and operation of the water infrastructure will be enhanced, thus contributing to the sustainability of service delivery.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-02263" ]

Title: Aguasan Programme Nicaragua

Description: [type="1" ] The population in rural areas and small towns of poor regions in Nicaragua still widely lacks sustainable water and sanitation services. The programme aims at improving living conditions of the population by providing water and sanitation infrastructure. State institutions at national and municipal levels will be strengthened. Community participation in the design, implementation and operation of the water infrastructure will be enhanced, thus contributing to the sustainability of service delivery.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-03874" ]

Title: Backstopping Mandate Health Focal Point and Health Network

Description: [type="1" ] The objective of this back-stopping mandate is to support SDCs core competence in health and provide advisory services to SDCs health focal points, SDCs global health team and to the members of SDCs health network. The back-stopping support shall provide services that strengthen SDCs technical capacity, quality and results in the health sector on demand.

Description: [type="1" ] ICIMOD aims at reducing poverty, enhancing peoples livelihoods, and promoting equity and social and environmental security in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya region. It supports adaptation to global change including climate change and strives at securing mountain ecosystem services and at improving up-stream and down-stream relationships as well as transboundary cooperation. Its activities are closely linked with many of SDCs goals stated in the new Bill 2013-2016.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-01324" ]

Title: Regional Research Beans & Maize East Africa

Description: [type="1" ] Ten million households (60% headed by women) have access to seeds of multiple-stress-tolerant bean varieties, planting these varieties on estimated 1.3 million hectares. Several national beans Programms released more than 100 improved bean varieties belonging to major market classes, some of them with résistance to abiotic and biotic stresses. The goal of this program is to improve food security, nutrition, health, income and livelihood of more than 16.5 mio resource-poor smallholder families with around 100 mio members in Sub-Saharan Arica by addressing productivity, environmental stresses and market challenges.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-01324" ]

Title: Contribution to the Pan African Bean Research Alliance PABRA

Description: [type="1" ] The greatest global challenge today is how to ensure food and nutrition security of a rapidly growing human population, considering climate change and without adversely affecting the natural base upon which the production is dependent. Beans, as the most important consumed grain legume, are a very good source of vitamins, minerals, and plant derived micronutrients. Significant yield increase of more than 60% are possible, following access to and use of improved varieties coupled with integrated crop management practices.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-03675" ]

Title: WSSCC Water Supply & Sanitation Collaborative Council

Description: [type="1" ] Core contribution for the Water Supply Collaborative Council (WSSCC), who is one of the main instrumental institutions in the sanitation and water sector development and campaigns for harmonisation and coordination in the sector. WSSCC's mission is to achieve sustainable water supply and sanitation for all people in the world.

Description: [type="1" ] Swiss cooperation is well recognized in the water supply and sanitation sector in Honduras and Nicaragua. Regional activities in Central America enhance coverage, strengthen capacity building, support the harmonisation of sector specific plans and strengthen the formulation of policies at a regional level.

Description: [type="1" ] Swiss cooperation is well recognized in the water supply and sanitation sector in Honduras and Nicaragua. Regional activities in Central America enhance coverage, strengthen capacity building, support the harmonisation of sector specific plans and strengthen the formulation of policies at a regional level.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-03880" ]

Title: Contribution to Network for Policy Research, Review and Advice on Education and Training (NORRAG)

Description: [type="1" ] Being an international network, NORRAG allows policy dialogue between a diversity of actors. It provides just-in-time knowledge on international education and training policies. It supports capacity development and evidence-based policy making, particularly in the Global South. The period of shaping the post MDGs/EFA agenda (2013-2015) is crucial for recalling the importance of basic education and training. By covering these two themes, NORRAG is a strategic partner for SDC.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-02190" ]

Title: Regional Aguasan Programme

Description: [type="1" ] In Central America, the Swiss Cooperation is well recognized in the water supply and sanitation sector. Regional activities enhance water and sanitation coverage, strengthen capacity building, support the harmonisation of sector specific plans and strengthen the formulation of policies as well as enhance mutual understanding of the challenges brought by the ODS.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-03880" ]

Title: Contribution to Network for Policy Research, Review and Advice on Education and Training (NORRAG)

Description: [type="1" ] Being an international network, NORRAG allows policy dialogue between a diversity of actors. It provides just-in-time knowledge on international education and training policies (IETPs). It supports capacity development and evidence-based policy making, particularly in the Global South. The period of shaping the post MDGs/EFA agenda is crucial for recalling the importance of basic education and training. By covering these two themes, NORRAG is a strategic partner for SDC.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-03880" ]

Title: Contribution to Network for Policy Research, Review and Advice on Education and Training (NORRAG)

Description: [type="1" ] Being an international network, NORRAG allows policy dialogue between a diversity of actors. It provides just-in-time knowledge on international education and training policies (IETPs). It supports capacity development and evidence-based policy making, particularly in the Global South. The period of shaping the post MDGs/EFA agenda is crucial for recalling the importance of basic education and training. By covering these two themes, NORRAG is a strategic partner for SDC.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-03442" ]

Title: Sino-Swiss Management Training Program for Sustainable Development (SSMTP4SD)

Description: [type="1" ] The SSMTP4SD is the new phase of the bilateral cooperation program between the Chinese Training Centre for Senior Personnel Management (CTCSPMO) and SDC. While it will continue to foster the modernization of human resources management and the development of civil servants in China, the program will focus its activities on environmental and social issues for the coming four years in line with Chinas need and willingness to achieve sustainable economic development.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-03442" ]

Title: Sino-Swiss Management Training Program for Sustainable Development (SSMTP4SD)

Description: [type="1" ] The SSMTP4SD is the new phase of the bilateral cooperation program between the Chinese Training Centre for Senior Personnel Management (CTCSPMO) and SDC. While it will continue to foster the modernization of human resources management and the development of civil servants in China, the program will focus its activities on environmental and social issues for the coming four years in line with Chinas need and willingness to achieve sustainable economic development.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-03764" ]

Title: Core contribution to the South Centre, Geneva

Description: [type="1" ] The South Centre is an intergovernmental organization promoting common Southern perspectives on the multilateral debate, particularly by the UN and the WTO. It is a research institute and a think-thank, supporting the presence of developing and emerging countries in the multilateral thematic fora and promoting awareness on the needs of the South.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-03775" ]

Title: Transparency International  Core contribution (2014-2016)

Description: [type="1" ] Transparency International (TI) is the leading global Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) working against corruption. It has succeeded in placing and maintaining the fight against corruption on the international agenda. TIs overall goal is to stop corruption and promote transparency, accountability and integrity at all levels and across all sectors of society. To achieve this, the TI Movement focuses on promoting reforms within the public and private sectors that increase transparency and accountability, and on empowering civil society to advocate for and monitor such reforms.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-02781" ]

Title: Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics  core funding

Description: [type="1" ] Strengthening national statistical capacities helps monitor the national developmental plans of the oPt. Credible, transparent and comprehensive statistics are key to the development of a democratic society. The availability of reliable data for planning and monitoring purposes is central for the State, the civil society, the legislative council, private sector, and academics. At the same time this data helps ensure accountability.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-03354" ]

Title: Kantha Bopha Hospitals Cambodia

Description: [type="1" ] The Kantha Bopha Hospitals in Cambodia treat 80% of severely ill children in Cambodia on an inpatient and an outpatient basis. It offers quality health care free of charge and trains Cambodian doctors as part of their university training program with 6 months internships. The KBH are usually the first ones to detect and signal epidemics which can be tackled early by health authorities. The KBH are a major partner of the Cambodian public health system.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-03354" ]

Title: Kantha Bopha Hospitals Cambodia

Description: [type="1" ] The Kantha Bopha Hospitals in Cambodia treat 80% of severely ill children in Cambodia on an inpatient and an outpatient basis. It offers quality health care free of charge and trains Cambodian doctors as part of their university training program with 6 months internships. The KBH are usually the first ones to detect and signal epidemics which can be tackled early by health authorities. The KBH are a major partner of the Cambodian public health system.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-03778" ]

Title: International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)

Description: [type="1" ] Despite progress made, major gaps still exist to fully realize sexual and reproductive health and rights for all. IPPF, through its 147 member associations in over 170 countries, is among the leading non-governmental organisations globally active in advocacy and service delivery to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights. As such, IPPF contributes to the implementation of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Agenda 2030.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-03778" ]

Title: International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)

Description: [type="1" ] Despite progress made, major gaps still exist to fully realize sexual and reproductive health and rights for all. IPPF, through its 147 member associations in over 170 countries, is among the leading non-governmental organisations globally active in advocacy and service delivery to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights. As such, IPPF contributes to the implementation of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Agenda 2030.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-02320" ]

Title: Breaking the vicious circle of water and poverty

Description: [type="1" ] Access to clean water is a major problem for people living in rural areas of Haiti. The main objective of the project supported by the SDC is to provide these people with access to drinking water and sanitation facilities. At the same time, a support mechanism for those involved in the maintenance and management of water supply systems has been put in place in order to secure their efficient operation over the long term.

Description: [type="1" ] The backstopping mandate increases the WIs desk ca-pacity response and is thus an important contribution to attaining the ambitious goals of the SDC in the water sector. In addition, the mandate contributes to the relevant positioning of the SDC in the sector. The continued collaboration with Skat in this phase without tender is consistent. The mandate requires established backstopping skills, familiarity with the SDCs sector interventions as well as strong positioning in Switzerland (in terms of recognition by other actors) and abroad (networks with other centres of competence in the South) for which Skat, with its close interplay of consultancy and resource centre activities, still stands as a unique partner in Switzerland.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-02782" ]

Title: Arij - Analyzing the Environmental Impact of the Separation Barrier in O.P.T

Description: [type="1" ] Support to a Palestinian Research Institution in performing field-based research to document the effects of Israeli occupation and land-appropriation practices on Palestinian livelihoods, in particular with respect to the environmental dimensions of the construction of the Separation Barrier. Furthering of a networked, peer-topeer collaboration among Palestinian Authority, Academic, UN, civil society and donor organisations in a delicate advocacy endeavour underpinned by principles of International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-00094" ]

Title: Alternated Education and Vocational Training Project (CEFA)

Description: [type="1" ] Albania is still in its transition period and its social safety net has to be further strengthened to address conditions perpetuating poverty and vulnerability among the most marginalized groups, in particular the Roma. The Project supports with a multidimensional and institutionalised approach the social inclusion of the Roma in four main municipalities of the country. It serves as a vehicle to test the ongoing Swiss supported integrated social services reform at the local level and to feed the reform with consolidated practices and experience.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-00232" ]

Title: Lugano Summer School - Support for health professionals and managers from Low- and Middle-Income Countries with a SOC health focus

Description: [type="1" ] Empowering the workforce at all levels and within each of the building blocks of the health system through training is mandatory for improving health system performance. Therefore the goal of the of the Lugano Summer School is to strengthen and sustain the capacity of health professionals in selected low and middle income countries to manage, develop and promote health services and health systems at conceptual, strategic, and operational levels.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-02782" ]

Title: Arij - Analyzing the Environmental Impact of the Separation Barrier in O.P.T

Description: [type="1" ] Support to a Palestinian Research Institution in performing field-based research to document the effects of Israeli occupation and land-appropriation practices on Palestinian livelihoods, in particular with respect to the environmental dimensions of the construction of the Separation Barrier. Furthering of a networked, peer-topeer collaboration among Palestinian Authority, Academic, UN, civil society and donor organisations in a delicate advocacy endeavour underpinned by principles of International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-00404" ]

Title: Maize initiative in Southern Africa

Description: [type="1" ] The "New Seed Initiative for Maize in Southern Africa" (NSIMA) was launched for the purpose of conducting research into drought-tolerant maize varieties that can generate bigger harvests than conventional varieties, even in less fertile soil. The ultimate aim is to achieve greater food security. At the same time, NSIMA activities involve cooperation with government and private-sector stakeholders in the maize sector to encourage seed production and trade (also for small-scale producers).

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-00404" ]

Title: Maize initiative in Southern Africa

Description: [type="1" ] The "New Seed Initiative for Maize in Southern Africa" (NSIMA) was launched for the purpose of conducting research into drought-tolerant maize varieties that can generate bigger harvests than conventional varieties, even in less fertile soil. The ultimate aim is to achieve greater food security. At the same time, NSIMA activities involve cooperation with government and private-sector stakeholders in the maize sector to encourage seed production and trade (also for small-scale producers).

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-03888" ]

Title: Backstopping Mandate for Water

Description: [type="1" ] The backstopping mandate (BSM) for water contributes to the improved sustainability of SDCs and its partners interventions in the water sector. It complements SDCs internal capacities and competencies and empowers key stakeholders. The BSM for water mainly supports the Global Programme Water Initiatives (GPWI), and its work is thus aligned on its 2013-2017 strategic framework.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-02784" ]

Title: GCMHP Gaza Mental Health Programme

Description: [type="1" ] Program Contribution to the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme (GCMHP). GCMHP is the only mental health institution in Gaza that can provide professional services and the first to bring the concept of community mental health to the region. GCMHP is partly providing the services and partly enhancing the capacity of other institutions to deliver the services (Governmental and non Governmental). The overall goal is to improve the mental heath environment of the women, men, girls and boys living in Gaza.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-03333" ]

Title: CMES Second Chance Education Programme

Description: [type="1" ] To enable disadvantaged rural adolescents to pursue alternative options to improve their life and livelihood, by providing a combination of basic educational, technical and life skills, and making them appreciated members of their communities. The specific objectives of the project are as follows: (1) Basic school provoding quality education and skills training for the adolescent dropouts and non-enrolled opening up livelihood opportunities; (2) Empowerment of adolescent girls to enable them to realise their potentials economically and socially and to establish gender equity; (3) Adaptation of profitable technologies for diversified opportunities for the rural youth; (4) Dissemination of the models to others including the mainstream for wider impact through replication.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-03129" ]

Title: Rural Health Development Project

Description: [type="1" ] Through its project planning and implementation approach RHDP has empowered community groups, especially women, and also influenced the village development committees (VDCs) to integrate community health demands in VDC planning, and thus contributed to local state building and better service delivery. After 17 years of cooperation, this will be the last phase of RHDP that will focus on consolidation and sustainability. As in the past, the project will aim at improving overall health status of people, especially of women, poor and disadvantaged groups in remote areas of Dolakha, Ramechhap and Okhaldhunga districts. Primary beneficiaries will be women, children, adolescents, and men, with special attention to Dalits and Janajatis.

Description: [type="1" ] This project aims to improve evidence based policy making in Tanzania. It will allow the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare and partners to better measure the impact of public spending in the health sector, and improve the use of evidence in policy making, for more effective health results. SDC will further strengthen IHI, the only private and independent health research institute, in developing and sustaining district-based data collection.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-03795" ]

Title: GWP Global Water Partnership

Description: [type="1" ] Three pertinent, complementary and synergic global Networks (respectively membership/core funding and contribution to specific project): (1) SDC's co-support to the Global water Partnership (GWP):, (2) Support to specific project of GWP:, (3) membership to the World Water Council (WWC):, (4) membership to the Water Footprint Network (WFN):, (5) Support to projects and small actions of WWC and WFN. Through its participation to these networks, SDC pursues four major objectives: a) Influence significantly the development of the water sector at global level and contribute to the harmonization of the different approaches. b) Communicate and disseminate SDCs experience at global level. c) Strengthen SDCs interventions in the water sector trough the global inputs of the networks. d) Maintain and develop a strong Swiss positioning in the water sector. These objectives contribute to the overall goal to achieve the global water security as a contribution to all major MDGs related to water, like: eradicate elimination extreme poverty and hunger (1), reduce child mortality (3), ensure environmental sustainability (7) Develop a global partnership for development (8) and assure the implementation of the Accra Agenda for Action in the Water sector. Each of SDCs selected partners have specific corresponding goals which Switzerland shares and supports.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-03795" ]

Title: GWP Global Water Partnership

Description: [type="1" ] Three pertinent, complementary and synergic global Networks (respectively membership/core funding and contribution to specific project): (1) SDC's co-support to the Global water Partnership (GWP):, (2) Support to specific project of GWP:, (3) membership to the World Water Council (WWC):, (4) membership to the Water Footprint Network (WFN):, (5) Support to projects and small actions of WWC and WFN. Through its participation to these networks, SDC pursues four major objectives: a) Influence significantly the development of the water sector at global level and contribute to the harmonization of the different approaches. b) Communicate and disseminate SDCs experience at global level. c) Strengthen SDCs interventions in the water sector trough the global inputs of the networks. d) Maintain and develop a strong Swiss positioning in the water sector. These objectives contribute to the overall goal to achieve the global water security as a contribution to all major MDGs related to water, like: eradicate elimination extreme poverty and hunger (1), reduce child mortality (3), ensure environmental sustainability (7) Develop a global partnership for development (8) and assure the implementation of the Accra Agenda for Action in the Water sector. Each of SDCs selected partners have specific corresponding goals which Switzerland shares and supports.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-02705" ]

Title: IRRC Irrigated Rice Research Consortium

Description: [type="1" ] The main goal of the IRRC is to improve the livelihoods of poor smallholder farmers in Southeast Asia by increasing their sustainable production of rice through the application of technologies from research on natural resource management. The aim is to increase production of rice by 10% and income by 15% for small holder families. This will be achieved by assisting partner countries address poverty alleviation through scaling up and scaling out of the successful technology options with the National Agricultural Research and Extension Systems (NARES) partners along with other stakeholders.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-03155" ]

Title: District Roads

Description: [type="1" ] The Project Support Unit (PSU) supports the capacity building in the districts, for implementation of rural infrastructure and community development activities. The District Development Committees (DDC) and local groups implement the works, with support from the PSU. DoLIDAR is responsible for the Planning, Coordination, Fund flow and Monitoring of the Programme. SDC has inducted many good practices across the rural road projects in Nepal. The green roads concept has been adopted nationally. Until recently unheard issues of workers welfare are now being translated into policy, that include insurance, work safety, equal wage for equal work and facilities that help women to participate.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-01708" ]

Title: Health Sector Reform Support Program (Health Basket)

Description: [type="1" ] Despite significant progress in the reduction of child mortality (MGD 4) and in the control of communicable diseases (MDG 6) over the last decade, Tanzania needs to sustain its gains and renew efforts in order to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) targets by 2015. Well-organized policy dialogue (SWAp) together with pooled funding (Health Basket Fund) have largely contributed to current health results. SDC long-standing political and financial support to the health sector is proposed to be renewed.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-02239" ]

Title: Aguasan Programme Honduras

Description: [type="1" ] The population in rural areas and small towns of poor regions in Honduras still widely lacks sustainable water and sanitation services. The programme aims at improving living conditions of the population by providing water and sanitation infrastructure. State institutions at national and municipal levels will be strengthened. Community participation in the design, implementation and operation of the water infrastructure will be enhanced, thus contributing to the sustainability of service delivery.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-02239" ]

Title: Aguasan Programme Honduras

Description: [type="1" ] The population in rural areas and small towns of poor regions in Honduras still widely lacks sustainable water and sanitation services. The programme aims at improving living conditions of the population by providing water and sanitation infrastructure. State institutions at national and municipal levels will be strengthened. Community participation in the design, implementation and operation of the water infrastructure will be enhanced, thus contributing to the sustainability of service delivery.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-01708" ]

Title: Performance-based Health Basket Fund

Description: [type="1" ] With its contribution to the health basket fund Switzerland supports the Government of Tanzania, in particular local governments, to accelerate equitable access to health services by women, children and isolated rural populations. Switzerland, as chair of the health development partners group, will lever the Fund resources through policy dialogue to create an innovative financing modality to ensure the utilization of all Tanzanians of quality health services.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-03093" ]

Title: NARC/CIMMYT Hill Maize Research Project

Description: [type="1" ] SDC has been supporting HMRP since 1999. HMRP had very encouraging achievements in the first three phases, such as: i) setting of the maize research priorities, establishing participatory variety selection, validation and certification methodologies, linking research with extension for wider dissemination, ii) certification of nine improved varieties and production of 4,416 MT of improved maize seeds, and iii) linking farmers feedback to policy decisions through farmers assessment tests over released varieties. HMRP has contributed to establishing a national research system, linking research with extension and strengthening farmers groups to produce maize seeds and deal with markets for better and assured prices. This fourth phase will focus on strengthening seeds dissemination channels, developing market links, ensuring the decentralized seed quality assurance system and developing more new maize varieties as the demand remains high.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-03813" ]

Title: Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP)

Description: [type="1" ] Financial inclusion is a thematic priority of the current and new Botschaft. Despite much pro-gress achieved, CGAPs and SPTFs missions are far from completion. Access of low-income people to insurance and long-term savings services require frontier markets to develop. There is also a long way until the Universal Standards for Social Performance Management (USSPM) are put into practice by financial institutions serving low-income people. They are essential to ensure that low-income people improve their livelihood as a result of using financial services.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-00667" ]

Title: New affordable anti-malarial drugs for the future

Description: [type="1" ] Founded in 1999, the non-profit organisation Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) works with public and private institutions to research and develop new anti-malarial drugs that even the poor can afford.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-03287" ]

Title: Sustainable Solutions for the Delivery of Safe Drinking Water

Description: [type="1" ] Since 1999, the project Sustainable Solutions for the Delivery of Safe Drinking Water has been combining social mobilisation and small WatSan infrastructure to improve poor peoples access to water and sanitation and strengthening their voice in interaction with local authorities. While the main project was completed by the end of the 4th project phase, the aim of this short final phase is to consolidate the intervention in an additional geographic area, which was included in the project as a result of the 0.5% bill in 2011.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-00398" ]

Title: Preventing domestic violence in Tajikistan

Description: [type="1" ] Domestic violence is commonplace in Tajikistan's predominantly rural society. Women pay a heavy price for the culture of impunity that surrounds the acts of violence perpetrated against them. The SDC is actively involved in efforts to change ways of thinking in that regard, and supports a wide range of structures that help the victims.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-00644" ]

Title: Kyrgyz Health Project: A Precedent-setting SDC-devised Project

Description: [type="1" ] A Swiss health project being conducted in Kyrgyzstan boasts of being a veritable archetype. What began as a village community project to foster good health has now been extended across the entire country thanks to the highly satisfying results obtained. Today, some 2 million individuals benefit from the programme.

Other-identifier: [owner-name="Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)" owner-ref="7F-00075" ]

Title: ESAPP Sustainable Natural Resources

Description: [type="1" ] The programme's thematic focus is of central importance and is strongly reflected in the development strategies of all six countries in the region (Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and Madagascar). The institutions participating in the long-term research partnership are able to enhance their own and other institutions' capacity substantially and to provide innovative knowledge and answers to some of the most pressing problems of Eastern and Southern Africa. The overall goal is to contribute to better quality and to innovation in development initiatives in Sustainable Land Management (SLM) and Sustainable Regional Development (SRD) in Eastern and Southern Africa, by means of integrated concepts and innovative tools, research and research partnerships, capacity building and development support.